twitter German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow
books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow
futurism A timeline of (possible, fascinating) future events from a (wide) variety of perspectives Cory Doctorow
computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow
Business Leak: Apple is demanding 50% of the revenue from its "Netflix for news" product Cory Doctorow
cable company fuckery After Net Neutrality repeal, Comcast, Charter and Verizon cut investment in their networks Cory Doctorow
trump endgame VC Fred Wilson's prediction: we will have a different President of the United States by the end of 2019 Mark Frauenfelder
surveillance Is this the full list of US cities that have bought or considered Predpol's predictive policing services? Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon has been quietly selling its facial recognition system to US police forces, marketing it for bodycam use Cory Doctorow
Business In an attempt to quantify stupendous risk, cyberinsurers ratchet up premiums, deploy gimmicks Cory Doctorow
web theory Comprehensive, open tutorial on using data analysis in social science research Cory Doctorow
fake news World War III, Trump, and proof Princess Diana was murdered, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan
scholarship How an influential economics paper used imaginary environmental overregulation to spur low-density luxury housing Cory Doctorow
